Daisies

"Daisies" is indisputably an art film, but if that means "boring" to you, you haven't seen "Daisies." A 1966 Czech film, it has everything... newspaper outfits, a Three Stooges-worthy cake fight, theft from a bathroom attendant. Our antiheroes are what you would get if Vladimir and Estragon were pretty, nihilistic young women, and instead of waiting for Godot, they're waiting for something good to happen. They have decided that everything is bad, so they must be, too. They have a huge appetites (for life, maybe, but moreso literally) and spend their free time conning old men into buying them free meals (in a lot of ways they reminded me of the two local girls in the Italian season of White Lotus, and it wouldn't surprise me if Daisies inspired those characters). They are bored and funny and often remind each other that they really do not care. It's a refreshing, never dull movie, and you definitely get the sense the filmmaker, the fearless Vera Chytlova, was enjoying herself too. It's clearly pushing at the government-imposed restrictions of the times and that gives it a lot of the rage and power that underpins the absurdity.